and the lakes Heri6 and Huron, the Bay des Puans and thereby deprive us of all the trade drawn from that country by destroying, at the same time, all the Christian Missions established among those nations and therefore it became necessary to make a last effort to prevent them ruining those Nations as they had formerly the Algonquins, the Andastez, the Loups (Mohegans), the Abenaquis and others, the remains of whom we have at the That to accomplish settlements of Sillery, Laurette, Lake Champlain and others scattered among us. that object, the state of the Colony was to be considered, and the means to be most usefully adopted against the enemy; that as to the Colony we could bring together a thousand good men, bearing arms and accustomed to manage canoes like the Iroquois, but when drawn from their settlements, it must be considered that the cultivation of the soil would be arrested during the whole period of their abdefeat render themselves masters of Missilimackina

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sence, and that it is necessary, before making them march, to have supplies of provisions necessary

in places distant from the settlements, so as to support them in the enemy's country a time sufficiently

long to effectually destroy that Nation, and to act no more by them as had been done seventeen years That we have advantages now which ago, making them partially afraid without weakening them. the French accustomed to the Woods, acquainted with all the roads through them, and the road to Fort Frontenac open to fall in forty hours on the Senecas, the strongest of the five